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35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, “Who is He Lord, that I might believe on Him?” 37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen Him, and it is He that talketh with thee. 38 And he said, “Lord, I believe”. And he worshiped Him. Are you starting to see what big news Jesus and all He did were in Jerusalem? No sooner had the man who had been blind and was given his sight by the Lord, cast out by the Jewish religious leaders, than this city of over a million, was abuzz with the news. Jesus who knew all things, ask the man a question, it is a question that He already know the answer to, but He ask it so that the man will have the opportunity to make a decision and a public confession.
Jesus ask: “Dost thou believe on the Son of God?” The mans answer is very telling he could have simply said “I don’t know, who is he?” But instead he replies to Jesus “Who is He Lord, that I might believe on Him?” The man not only wants to know who the Son of God is, but he wants to fully trust in this Son of God as well. So he says “Who is He Lord, that I might believe on Him?”.
Now understand this, when ever Jesus was anywhere in public the Pharisees and other religious leaders where in attendance, not to learn, but to criticize and try to catch Him with something they could persecute Him with. So they heard and saw all that was happening, they heard Jesus respond to the man who had been blind with: “Thou hast both seen Him, and it is He that talketh with thee.”
Jesus ask the man, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” The man ask Jesus who it is, Jesus says “I AM the Son of God, I AM the I AM.” and the man says “Lord, I believe”. And then he fell down before Jesus and worshiped Him. From John chapter nine verses 24 to 38 we know that this man who had been blind was indeed a Born Again Christian. For he has confessed that Jesus is Lord with the mouth, he has defended Him and he has fallen down before Him and pronounced his love and adoration for Him. He has become a Born Again Christian and within days he will be washed clean of his sins by the very Blood of the Lamb.
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see, and they that see might be made blind. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with Him heard these words, and said unto Him, “Are we blind also?” 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, ‘We see’; therefore your sin remaineth. That word “judgement” in verse 39 needs a bit of clarification. It is not judgment as we think of or define judgement. It is, in the Greek, krima, pronounced kree'-mah and it means to either condemn as in damn or avenge as in grant eternal salvation. So, today Jesus would have expressed it more like this in English. “I came into the world so that those who came to Me would have eternal salvation and those who did not come to Me would have eternal damnation. It is each man, woman, and child’s individual choice”
As for the Pharisees that heard this and had the gall to open their septic system mouths, with their snide remark of “Are we blind also?” it resulted in their being adjudicated, by God Himself, as guilty of not being avenged and therefore they are damned. For look at what Jesus has said to them: “If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, ‘We see’; therefore your sin remaineth.” Basically what Jesus is saying to them is, “You claim you know the Scriptures, yet you ignore and attack Me, therefore by your own decision to turn from Me, your sin remains with you, for you have refused to come to Me so that your sin could be forgiven. As the man who had been blind before has come to Me.” For you see that word “remaineth” is in the original Greek “meno”, pronounced men'-o it is a primary verb; that means to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy):–to abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, and/or tarry. Jesus has left no room for doubt, their sin is there to stay, they have made their choice, there sin will abide within them.
You see, just as Jesus has said over and over again, He does not condemn a person. A person condemn himself by refusing to become a Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Christian. Read this again from John 3. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Notice what Jesus says, “He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.” He that refuses to become a Born Again Christian condemns himself. That self damnation is for refusing to become a Born Again Christian, refusing to turn for satan and go to Jesus.
Your salvation is not my responsibility, your salvation is between you and the Christ, it is your responsibility and your responsibility only. For Christ has done His part. He has supplied the way, the only way. It is now in your hands. For just as there are only two believes as how all came about, the way the Bible states, that God created the world in six literal and consecutive 24 hour days or that the world evolved. So is there only two groups of people in the world, Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Christians and the damned. And make no mistake about that, you are either one or the other, there is no third choice. (John 9:35-41 ACP/KJV)
And so we end chapter nine of the Gospel of Christ as relayed to us by the Apostle John. It is the Friday before Easter. I do pray all of you will take time to ponder the significance of what Jesus did on that cross and the miracle of the resurrection. For if you are impressed by, the giving of sight to one who was born blind, then think about the resurrection of a Man who was beat, whipped, nailed to a cross, speared in the side and lay in a cold dark grave for 3 days. Ponder the significance of how much God must love us and desire fellowship with us for Him to come to earth and go through what He went through for us.
This study of the Gospel of John has been and will continue to be intensive. So for Easter I will put up a link to a previous thought or two, maybe a youtube video.
The Lord be with you all as we move further and further, ever closer and closer to that day when the Lord will shout and we who are His will join Him in the clouds, those who died as Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Christians first and those who are alive and are Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Christians a micro second later. Amen.